I don’t love the idea of vacations. Time off, I can handle. With time off, you’re taking a day for yourself, or a day to get something done. It can be impromptu. Vacations, for me anyway, are anything but. I…
I don’t love the idea of vacations. Time off, I can handle. With time off, you’re taking a day for yourself, or a day to get something done. It can be impromptu. Vacations, for me anyway, are anything but. I…
Have I used that post title before? I feel like I have, but I’m doing it again. I would categorize myself as a good parent who is not good at parenting. Let’s define terms here a little. I am a…
I’m pretty sure Joshua has night terrors [see note below for addendum!]. It’s as fun as it sounds. This has happened to us a smattering of times, but a recent event really settled it that this must be what’s going…
There’s a thing I hear all the time from grandparents (though not from either of our parents, actually, at least not to our faces) that always makes me a little crazy. Stories about kids not wanting to wear pull-ups to…
Much of this will be preamble, but I think it’s necessary to really set up the situation at the end. It’s been a rough week. Rough for everyone in the family, and rough for Daddy in a different way. I…
Sometimes I just want to stop Joshua, put my hands on his little shoulders and say “I know you are lying to me, my little friend.” Not as if it would matter if I did. You hear all the time…
Every night I tell Joshua a story. Well, every night he doesn’t freak out and get it taken away as punishment, but I digress. When it started, I would make up a story about Thomas the Tank Engine or I…